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"Over 60 of the greatest scientific minds the world has ever seen were Catholic. Did you know two Popes were renowned scientists in their day? That several complete branches of science were created and developed by Catholics, sometimes single-handedly?"
In fact, the Catholic scientist Zamboni invented the dry cell electrical battery and set a bell ringing with his new invention back in 1840. The Oxford Ringing Bell has been ringing continuously since then - that's right, it's been ringing continuously for 170 years, all powered by that same battery!
Or take another example: remember Avagadro's number? Avagadro was a staunch Catholic!
Or consider the direction in which a hurrican'es winds spin. The Coriolis force was named after Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, another staunch Catholic! Foucault, of Foucault's Pendulum fame... Catholic.
The man who developed the Big Bang Theory was not only a Catholic, he was a Belgian priest, Father George Lemaitre!
Great Catholic Scientists Wall Chart (http://bestcatholicposters.com/magento/index.php/featured-products/great-catholic-scientists.html - broken link)
Scientists did great things in their alternative (to the Bible) quest to determine the true nature of God. Science and religion can coexist and inspire each other. They don't have to be antagonistic.
I didn't know about Coriolis. I know the Jesuits have been very significant in science and a few other orders have too. Mendel, an Augustinian, is a pretty well known monk/scientist.
Although in fairness Anglicans and Quakers have also produced many great scientists. Traditionally Quakers were overrepresented, compared to their numbers in general population, among scientists.
I didn't know about Coriolis. I know the Jesuits have been very significant in science and a few other orders have too. Mendel, an Augustinian, is a pretty well known monk/scientist.
Although in fairness Anglicans and Quakers have also produced many great scientists. Traditionally Quakers were overrepresented, compared to their numbers in general population, among scientists.
It would be great to see a thread on those as well.
I think it is wonderful in the environment where religious leaders preached on the flat earth being the center of the universe that a few people had the guts to research and find truths. I know they risked their lives to expose those truths. I wonder where we would be today if the church had been recognized for the fraud it is, and science had been given a free hand to study and research.
I personally have worked in the science field for almost four decades; that is most of my adult life, and in my work environment and peer group there are very few if any religious people. I don’t think the acceptance of myth based religions and the search for repeatable scientific data using the scientific method can coexist. To think there is a middle ground where religion with no facts and science which survives on facts can coexist is insane.
I think it is wonderful in the environment where religious leaders preached on the flat earth being the center of the universe that a few people had the guts to research and find truths.I know they risked their lives to expose those truths. I wonder where we would be today if the church had been recognized for the fraud it is, and science had been given a free hand to study and research. I personally have worked in the science field for almost four decades; that is most of my adult life, and in my work environment and peer group there are very few if any religious people.
As the saying goes, "The plural of anecdote is not data."
Here is a list of 116 physicians (trained Medical doctors), many of whom I presume are theists--probably Catholic. I'm sure I could find thousands upon thousands of names like this, but I just pulled this off the internet quickly because I happen to know two of these doctors personally and know they are orthodox Catholics AND accomplished scientists .
And one more thing: neither is risking his life to practice science professionally AND practice Catholicism:
Life of Mother? (http://www.abortiontv.com/Lies%20&%20Myths/LifeOfMotherException.htm - broken link)
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I think it is wonderful in the environment where religious leaders preached on the flat earth being the center of the universe that a few people had the guts to research and find truths. I know they risked their lives to expose those truths. I wonder where we would be today if the church had been recognized for the fraud it is, and science had been given a free hand to study and research.
I personally have worked in the science field for almost four decades; that is most of my adult life, and in my work environment and peer group there are very few if any religious people. I don’t think the acceptance of myth based religions and the search for repeatable scientific data using the scientific method can coexist. To think there is a middle ground where religion with no facts and science which survives on facts can coexist is insane.
Just out of curiosity, what science field was that?
Too many chemicals drive chemists insane over the years. Rejected
The only ones who I have known to have genuinely questioned faith are the cell biologists, evolution scientists and geologists. The rest are posers. It's like getting a faux-hawk just coz you can't get a mohawk
[font=Verdana]I don’t think the acceptance of myth based religions and the search for repeatable scientific data using the scientific method can coexist. To think there is a middle ground where religion with no facts and science which survives on facts can coexist is insane.
Francis Bacon, the "father of Empiricism", was reportedly very pious. The insanity you declare in your post existed at the time of some of the great discoveries of science.
These men found that middle ground; very complex and interesting men.
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